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There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.